Síndrome metabólico en la infancia

The metabolic syndrome is turning into one of the principal problems of public health of the 21st century. This term is used to indicate that clinical situation that includes different degrees of hypertension, intolerance to the glucose, resistance to the insulin, dislipidemia aterogenic, central obesity with that conditions are associated proinflamatory and protrombotics. The metabolic syndrome is presented by a very high and increasing prevalencia, which is associated with slightly healthy ways of life. The diagnosis implies increasing in 5 times the risk of suffering diabetes type 2 and in 2 or 3 times that of cardiovascular disease. The clinical diagnosis is simple and his treatment not pharmacologist must be indicated in all the patients. The constitutive patology of the syndrome must treat integrally. Nevertheless, still lacking information about the impact in the cardiovascular risk, of the use of medicaments that reduce the resistance to the insulin and of the effect of the therapies combined for the own dislipidemias aterogenics of the Syndrome. The premature morbidity and mortality that it transports might unbalance the sanitary budget of many developed countries or in routes of development. A prevention is necessary orientated to fomenting healthy habits of life, such as a diet adapted to the caloric expense, and the regular practice of physical exercise.